The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-08-04
OHIO CONVENTION.
John Sherman Made Permanent
Chairman.
Governor FOrakre RenOminated by
AcclamatlOn.
Protection Of First Importance to
Americans.
fractional Feelings Buried and Every
thing Harmonious.
Permanent

TOLEDO, Ohio, July 2S.-The repub-
lican state convention was called to or
der at 10 O'Clock by Temporary Chair
man Ryan. The committee on creden-
tials and rules reported, which were
adopted, and Ex-Governor Charles Fos-
ter, chairman of the committee on res
olutions, read the platform, which was
as follows:
The republican party, in convention
assembled, submits to the people of
Ohio the following declaration of its
principles:
We are in favor of a protective
tariff, to secure to American citizens
the privilege of supplying every article
which can be produced as well III the
United States as in other countries,
and sufficiently to supply American
wants. Such tariff makes a demand
for and gives employment to the labor
of American citizens, and thereby aids
IN securing just compensation for labor.
We denounce the Ohio democratic
platform of a tariff for revenue only,
and which demands an indiscriminate
reduction in all duties on imported
articles, the effect Of which would be
to encourage importations, thus giving
American patronage to foreign pro-
ducers and foreign labor rather than to
our own.
While we adhere to the public pol
icy under which our country has re-
ceived from Europe the great bodies of
honest, industrious citizens, who have
added to the wealth, progress and
power of our country, and while we
welcome to our shors the well-dispoSed
and industrious emigrant who contrib
utes by his energy and intelligence to
the cause OF free government, We view
with alarm the unrestricted immigra-
tion from foreign lands, as dangerous
to the peace and good order of the coun-
try, and the integrity and character of
its citizenship. We urge congress to
pass such laws aud establish such reg
ulations as shall protect us from the
inroads of the anarchist, communist,
polygamist, fugitives from justice, in
sane dependent paupers and the vicious
and criminal classes ofcontract labor in
every form under any name
who seek our shores not to become a
part of our civilization and citizenship;
who acknowledge no allegiance to our
laws, and no sympathy with our aims
and institutions, but who come among
us to make war upon society, to d.
minish the dignity and rewards of
American workingmen and degrade
our labor to their level. Against all
these our gates should be closed. But,
while favoring every honorable and
practicable measure to protect AmeTi
can labor from the evil effects Of for
eign immigration and competition, we
recognize, also, the dangers which me-
mace it at home, and condemn as hos
tile to its cause, and as SubverSive to
its dignity and power, the bold, persist
emit usurpatiOn in many of the states of
its political rights and privileges. The
condition of men who labor in the
north cannot be maintained or inn
proved so long as the men who labor in
the south are wrongfully deprived of
the rights and powers of American cit
iZenship. Their labor meets in clio Sc,
immediate competition, and Meth er
can be degraded without striking at
the prosperity and independence Of The
other. Recognizing these truths we
demand a free ballot and a fair count
in all sections of orr country. We de-
mand it, and will ever dem and it, as
the only source of justice to the real
producers of the prosperity and wealth
and real security of the public and its
free ms; itutions. We deprecate ma
tional strife and divisions; we have
placed war with its hates and revenges
behind us. But the settlement of war
must stand irrevOcable, respected,
honored and observed in every part of
the republic. More we have never de-
manded; less we will not have. Con-
gress should exercise its constitutional
authotity and take the control and SUI
pervisiOn of elections of representatives
to congress.
We demand such duties on wool and
manufactures thereof as will secure an
American market to American pro-
ducers. We denounce the demand
made under President Cleveland's ad-
ministration by the secretary of the
treasury in his annual report of Deem
Der 9Th, for the immediate passage Of
an act placing raw wool upon the free
list, and we denounce the democratic
state platform, which proclaims its
hearty and unqualified endorsement of
said administration, and demands a
reduction of the present duties on wool
and wooden and wOrSted goods. Such
"A reduction would destroy the wool
growing and wooden manufacturing in
dustries, and would invite large Inn
ports. break down American competi-
ton and give the control of our market
to foreign producers, who would ulti-
mately demand exorbitant prices. We
earnestly protest against the decisions
of the secretary of the treasury in Gus
toms cases in the interest of the for
eign producer and foreign labor as in
opposition to the letter and spirit of the
tariff laws. We favor liberal pensions
to soldiers and sailors of the union, adj
equate appropriations for the improve
ment of our national waterways, and
national aid to education. If too much
revenue be collected to meet these and
other public needs, we demand that the
first step in the reduction thereof shall
DO the abolition of the internal tax up
on American grown tobacco.
The public lands of the United States
should be sacredly held for the use and
benefit of actual settlers alone, and
laws preventing ownership of these
lands by corporations and nonresident
aliens should be rigidly enforced.
While we condemn the pretenses OF
President Cleveland's administration
of civil service law, we advocate the
maintenance and proper enforcement
of said law and demand such addition
al legislation as viii remove appoint
ments from partisan influence.
The republican party has ever beer
the friend of oppressed natiOnalities
and we extend our hearty sympathy Il
Gladstone, Parnell and their associate:
in their efforts to secure home rule fol
Ireland.
We condemn the action of Mr.. Cleve
land in vetoing pension bills, and espe
cially denounce the spirit manifested